>>Now I am wondering if CF has a future.
The short answer: No.
The long answer: CF will be around awhile, but there's no doubt in my mind
that Allaire will be gradually folding it into their Java products, which
means that there will be little new development of CF as a language. We've
already seen part of this. CFSCRIPT was intruduced in CF 4.0, and was a
promising development in the language. CF 4.5 has come and gone, and not
only were *no* improvements made to CFSCRIPT (and there were many
improvements to be made), but it still languishes as the most undocumented
part of CF. In short, if you want to keep doing cutting edge work, and you
want to stay with Allaire, you'd best learn Java.
Allaire should be VERY afraid of PHP.
Michael J. Sheldon
http://www.desertraven.com/
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-----Original Message-----
From: Chris Stendall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Saturday, August 12, 2000 17:06
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Are we in trouble?
It seems all I used to hear about was ASP. Now all I hear about is PHP. I'm
starting to get nervous... I like open-source solutions as much as anyone,
but I also like Cold Fusion. I have a lot of time, energy and training
invested in it. But if PHP does the same thing for free (I don't know it
yet), nobody is going to buy CF.
This innovation cycling is getting ridiculous. I was training for the NT4
exam, but now with Win2000 out and NT4 exams deprecated, why bother? Now I
am wondering if CF has a future. I can't learn anything before it becomes
obsolete...
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